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Best of the forum: Training

Highlights and frequently asked questions from our Training forum

TRAINING: GENERAL | Long runs | Speedwork | Hillwork | Heart rate | TRAINING FOR RACING | Marathon | CROSS-TRAINING | Miscellaneous | Credits

These are highlights and frequently asked questions from our training forums. They were created by members of Runner's World just like you. If you want to bring a discussion back to life, don't be shy: just add a new message at the end of it. Alternatively, start a new thread on the training forum.

TRAINING: GENERAL
General
Cross-country and trail running - how can I start?
Early-morning runs - how should I fuel up?
Goals - what changes are you really going to make to achieve them?
Improving - How can I get faster?
Improving - I'm 40 and overweight - should I focus on distance or speed?
Recovery runs - useful or waste miles?
Schedules - How can I fit running and other sports into a 7-day week?
Twice-daily training - should I consider it?
Visualisation - transformed my running
Warming up and stretching - do I really need to?
Long runs
Are long runs ruining my training?
Cardiac/heart-rate drift - on long runs
Do two semi-long runs = one long one?
Should I extend a 10K race into a long run?
Speedwork
10K training - tempo pace vs hills and speedwork
Improving - tips for increasing speed and making hills look easy, please
Intervals - what paces and rests?
Intervals, fartlek, speedwork - what are they? - part 1
Intervals, fartlek, speedwork - what are they? -part 2
Marathon training - speedwork or not?
Repetitions - Yasso 800s - part 1
Repetitions - Yasso 800s - part 2
Treadmill speedwork - best sessions and paces?
Hillwork
Beginners - Hill Training
How should I structure hill reps?
Heart rate
Calculating threshold heart rate
How should I calculate my maximum heart rate?
Long runs and cardiac/heart-rate drift
My heart-rate zones seem wrong...
My race heart rate was 100% of my maximum - allegedly. Will I explode?
TRAINING FOR RACING
Half-marathon - I've only run 9 miles - should I still do it?
Half-marathon time - can I predict it from my 10K time?
Hill race - my first: all advice welcome!
Jet lag - how can I overcome it when racing?
Marathon
Books - got a good marathon book?
Long runs - am I running them too fast?
Post-marathon - advice, please, for next few weeks
Schedule - Can I train just four days a week for a marathon?
Schedules - which marathon schedules are best?
CROSS-TRAINING
Cycling - can it replace running sessions?
Indoor rowing - why it works for runners
Orienteering - any good?
Rowing v Running - how does it compare?
Swimming - how does it compare with running?
Treadmills - How should I combine road and treadmill running?
Treadmill training - how does it compare with 'real' running?
Treadmill vs road - harder, easier or just different?
Triathlon - can I lay triathlon foundations while marathon training?
Triathlon - Half-Ironman help needed
Walking to work - does it count?
Weight training - which regime is best for runners?
MISCELLANEOUS
Altitude - training on holiday
Beach running
Form - anyone tried the POSE method of running?
Form - long stride length or short?
Shift working - any solutions?
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Stella Burton 
Posted: 21/09/04 19:50:45 45
Can anyone let me know the ratio of running to walking followed by the Runners world pacemakers in the london full and half marathon. I am currently using 4/1.
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